SUMMARY. ON TUESDAY EVENING British historian David
Irving was ordered by Munich city authorities to leave
Germany by midnight last night November 10/11. He flew back
to London at 5 p.m. yesterday. He is appealing the ban.

BACKGROUND. Mr Irving has been conducting an
International Campaign for Real History since 1991. Since
mid October he has been lecturing in the United States. A
week ago he was approached by an organiser who wished him to
address students at Munich university on Tuesday. Mr Irving
made one phone call from Huntsville, Alabama, to the
organiser and arranged a rendezvous at a well-known Munich
restaurant at 4:20 p.m. Tuesday evening. He flew from the
USA to London on Monday, then to Munich. At 4:25 p.m.
officers of the German Staatsschutz (state security) raided
the restaurant and handed him a pre-written 33pp document
date-stamped November 9, ordering him out. This ban has
nationwide effect in Germany, so Mr Irving was unable to
deliver further lectures at Stuttgart, Hanover, and
Dresden.

QUOTE. Mr Irving says: "There has been no freedom of
speech in Germany since the 1920s. And I know, I am an
expert on the period. The only change is that the police now
no longer have to wear armbands. But they still click their
heels and Follow Orders." He has instructed his German
lawyers to obtain an injunction setting aside the ban.